Camelia Dewan PhD
@cameliadewan.bsky.social
Assoc Prof (docent) @UU_University. Author of #MisreadingTheBengalDelta @uwapress. PhD SOAS/Bbk. MSc @LSE. MA@EdinburghUni.
Development, climate change, toxicity.
Development, climate change, toxicity.
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The 2025 winner in Environmental Humanities is Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by @cameliadewan.bsky.social (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2021)
I am deeply honoured and humbled to receive this prize in environmental humanities from @acls1919.bsky.social.
Let us collectively bring critical social science examinations—rooted in history, politics, and context, and problematizing normative discourses—to the global public.
Let us collectively bring critical social science examinations—rooted in history, politics, and context, and problematizing normative discourses—to the global public.
Den här insamlingen startades av deras arbetsgivare, Södersjukhuset. Snälla skriv på den med : www.mittskifte.org/petitions/za...
Zahra Kazemipour. Högutbildad vårdpersonal utvisas på grund av lagförändring om spårbyte.
Sjukvården i Sverige brottas med brist på sjukvårdpersonal, speciellt sjuksköterskor och läkare. I Socialstyrelsens rapport från 2022 uppgav samtliga regioner att de hade brist på både läkare med spec...
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December 20, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Den här insamlingen startades av deras arbetsgivare, Södersjukhuset. Snälla skriv på den med : www.mittskifte.org/petitions/za...
Den här frågan är viktig för mig. Vi har känt dem i flera år. Snälla hjälp oss stoppa utvisningen av denna barnfamilj– skriv gärna under: www.mittskifte.org/petitions/st...
Stoppa utvisningen av Zahra
Zahra jobbar på Södersjukhuset i Stockholm och beskrivs av sina kollegor som en av de mest erfarna operationssjuksköterskorna på hela sjukhuset. Under pandemin hyllades hon som en hjälte. Nu ska hon u...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Den här frågan är viktig för mig. Vi har känt dem i flera år. Snälla hjälp oss stoppa utvisningen av denna barnfamilj– skriv gärna under: www.mittskifte.org/petitions/st...
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📝 Five important recommendations to root '(unin)habitability' research and policy-making in climate justice - including the recognition of people's rights to stay and to adapt in places abruptly labelled as '(soon-to-be-)uninhabitable'.
@cameliadewan.bsky.social
@cameliadewan.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
📝 Five important recommendations to root '(unin)habitability' research and policy-making in climate justice - including the recognition of people's rights to stay and to adapt in places abruptly labelled as '(soon-to-be-)uninhabitable'.
@cameliadewan.bsky.social
@cameliadewan.bsky.social
I am deeply honoured and humbled to receive this prize in environmental humanities from @acls1919.bsky.social.
Let us collectively bring critical social science examinations—rooted in history, politics, and context, and problematizing normative discourses—to the global public.
Let us collectively bring critical social science examinations—rooted in history, politics, and context, and problematizing normative discourses—to the global public.
The 2025 winner in Environmental Humanities is Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by @cameliadewan.bsky.social (@uwapress.uw.edu, 2021)
September 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I am deeply honoured and humbled to receive this prize in environmental humanities from @acls1919.bsky.social.
Let us collectively bring critical social science examinations—rooted in history, politics, and context, and problematizing normative discourses—to the global public.
Let us collectively bring critical social science examinations—rooted in history, politics, and context, and problematizing normative discourses—to the global public.
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The environmental humanities finalists include books by @benspky.bsky.social, Joanna Page, @cameliadewan.bsky.social, @pederanker.bsky.social, & Mauro José Caraccioli
@ucpress.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @uwapress.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social
@ucpress.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @uwapress.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The environmental humanities finalists include books by @benspky.bsky.social, Joanna Page, @cameliadewan.bsky.social, @pederanker.bsky.social, & Mauro José Caraccioli
@ucpress.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @uwapress.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social
@ucpress.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @uwapress.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social
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One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal
At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.
www.dailycal.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
Amazing papers and panels at the Health, Environment and Anthropology conference @durhamuniversity.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Amazing papers and panels at the Health, Environment and Anthropology conference @durhamuniversity.bsky.social
Eid Mubarak from Sweden ❤️ in solidarity and hoping for strength in these challenging times. May the tides change for the better of those oppressed and subjected to countless violence and withdrawal of rights
March 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Eid Mubarak from Sweden ❤️ in solidarity and hoping for strength in these challenging times. May the tides change for the better of those oppressed and subjected to countless violence and withdrawal of rights
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“We’re failing to appreciate the people and institutions who’ve propelled these remarkable advances, undermining them without offering credible alternatives, and risking the loss of future breakthroughs that many patients are counting on,” said @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
In his resignation letter, Marks rebuked Kennedy for seeking “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies” about vaccines.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“We’re failing to appreciate the people and institutions who’ve propelled these remarkable advances, undermining them without offering credible alternatives, and risking the loss of future breakthroughs that many patients are counting on,” said @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social
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Columbia. Harvard. A lot of pressure on a bunch of less prominent programs with all the programmatic cuts to language and area studies funding
These fuckers are trying to tear Middle East Studies up by the floorboard because they don't want people knowing the truth about Palestine
These fuckers are trying to tear Middle East Studies up by the floorboard because they don't want people knowing the truth about Palestine
Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
www.thecrimson.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Columbia. Harvard. A lot of pressure on a bunch of less prominent programs with all the programmatic cuts to language and area studies funding
These fuckers are trying to tear Middle East Studies up by the floorboard because they don't want people knowing the truth about Palestine
These fuckers are trying to tear Middle East Studies up by the floorboard because they don't want people knowing the truth about Palestine
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UPDATE: Hours after filing our amended petition, a federal judge ordered Rümeysa Öztürk can't be removed from the U.S. until further court order. The government must respond to the amended petition by Tuesday at 5pm.
This is a critical next step. We won’t stop until Rümeysa is free.
This is a critical next step. We won’t stop until Rümeysa is free.
BREAKING: We and @aclum.bsky.social are joining Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team after plain-clothes ICE agents unlawfully detained her because of an op-ed she wrote.
This is an appalling violation of the First Amendment.
This is an appalling violation of the First Amendment.
March 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
UPDATE: Hours after filing our amended petition, a federal judge ordered Rümeysa Öztürk can't be removed from the U.S. until further court order. The government must respond to the amended petition by Tuesday at 5pm.
This is a critical next step. We won’t stop until Rümeysa is free.
This is a critical next step. We won’t stop until Rümeysa is free.
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People disappeared off the streets
Trans people fighting to keep basic civil rights
Disabled people facing mask bans, healthcare & social security cuts
Tourists from Germany, UK & Canada imprisoned
This is a powerful moment for intersectionality. There’s more of us than there are of them.
Trans people fighting to keep basic civil rights
Disabled people facing mask bans, healthcare & social security cuts
Tourists from Germany, UK & Canada imprisoned
This is a powerful moment for intersectionality. There’s more of us than there are of them.
March 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
People disappeared off the streets
Trans people fighting to keep basic civil rights
Disabled people facing mask bans, healthcare & social security cuts
Tourists from Germany, UK & Canada imprisoned
This is a powerful moment for intersectionality. There’s more of us than there are of them.
Trans people fighting to keep basic civil rights
Disabled people facing mask bans, healthcare & social security cuts
Tourists from Germany, UK & Canada imprisoned
This is a powerful moment for intersectionality. There’s more of us than there are of them.
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UNRWA reports that hundreds have been killed since Israel resumed its bombing [genocide] of the Gaza Strip, including 180 children in a single day.
March 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
UNRWA reports that hundreds have been killed since Israel resumed its bombing [genocide] of the Gaza Strip, including 180 children in a single day.
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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control detected 620,000 Chikungunya virus cases and 213 deaths last year.
Today, we approved a vaccine against the virus for individuals over 12 years old.
→ europa.eu/!XvkvCk
Today, we approved a vaccine against the virus for individuals over 12 years old.
→ europa.eu/!XvkvCk
February 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control detected 620,000 Chikungunya virus cases and 213 deaths last year.
Today, we approved a vaccine against the virus for individuals over 12 years old.
→ europa.eu/!XvkvCk
Today, we approved a vaccine against the virus for individuals over 12 years old.
→ europa.eu/!XvkvCk
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“many faculty members voiced concerns about …a ‘lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.’”
Congratulations to admin. Give them lemons, by god they’ll make lemonade and then try to drown the humanities in it
Congratulations to admin. Give them lemons, by god they’ll make lemonade and then try to drown the humanities in it
Re-sharing – now without the editorializing! “On Friday, Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs, a decision faculty members say was made after programs had already accepted students.”
Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid federal research funding cuts
Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs — a decision faculty members say will force them to rescind offers from newly-accepted students.
www.thedp.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“many faculty members voiced concerns about …a ‘lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.’”
Congratulations to admin. Give them lemons, by god they’ll make lemonade and then try to drown the humanities in it
Congratulations to admin. Give them lemons, by god they’ll make lemonade and then try to drown the humanities in it
Help please! I used to take the most amazing picture with a tiny little Canon PowerShot. I want a powerful camera with an amazing Auto function that is tiny and discrete and fits into a really small lady's handbag without needing separate lenses or its own camera bag. Any recommendations? Thank you!
February 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Help please! I used to take the most amazing picture with a tiny little Canon PowerShot. I want a powerful camera with an amazing Auto function that is tiny and discrete and fits into a really small lady's handbag without needing separate lenses or its own camera bag. Any recommendations? Thank you!
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8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
February 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
www.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
Appalling. What happened to Truth and Reconciliation? www.thedailystar.net/news/banglad...
Vandalism, arson spread
Houses of Awami League leaders were attacked and torched, and murals and busts of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were demolished and defaced in nearly two dozen districts yesterday.
www.thedailystar.net
February 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Appalling. What happened to Truth and Reconciliation? www.thedailystar.net/news/banglad...
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Prof Ian Cousins explains levels of PFAS deemed "safe" in tap water vary wildly from country to country, with Denmark leading the pack, the US & Sweden taking second place & the UK & EU limping in way behind - with levels of PFAS permissable in our tap water 50x higher than allowed in Denmark. 2/3
February 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Prof Ian Cousins explains levels of PFAS deemed "safe" in tap water vary wildly from country to country, with Denmark leading the pack, the US & Sweden taking second place & the UK & EU limping in way behind - with levels of PFAS permissable in our tap water 50x higher than allowed in Denmark. 2/3
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The 35-year old man, who committed the deadliest mass murder in Sweden's history, was a native and his name was Rickard Andersson and had licenses to keep 4 guns. The Far Right has gone silent because he was not an immigrant or a Muslim!
February 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The 35-year old man, who committed the deadliest mass murder in Sweden's history, was a native and his name was Rickard Andersson and had licenses to keep 4 guns. The Far Right has gone silent because he was not an immigrant or a Muslim!
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Den här historien blir bara mer och mer bisarr.
I samband med ansökan om blockaden begärde Arbetsdomstolen in information om vilka företag som skulle påverkas. Facket gjorde en kartläggning och skickade in informationen. Detta är alltså skälet till uppsägningen😵💫 www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fack...
I samband med ansökan om blockaden begärde Arbetsdomstolen in information om vilka företag som skulle påverkas. Facket gjorde en kartläggning och skickade in informationen. Detta är alltså skälet till uppsägningen😵💫 www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fack...
Fackledare sägs upp – polisanmäls för brott mot rikets säkerhet - Nyheter (Ekot)
Hamnarbetarförbundet vann striden i Arbetsdomstolen och fick rätt till blockad av israeliskt krigsmateriel i sex dygn framåt.Samtidigt sägs deras vice ...
www.sverigesradio.se
February 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Den här historien blir bara mer och mer bisarr.
I samband med ansökan om blockaden begärde Arbetsdomstolen in information om vilka företag som skulle påverkas. Facket gjorde en kartläggning och skickade in informationen. Detta är alltså skälet till uppsägningen😵💫 www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fack...
I samband med ansökan om blockaden begärde Arbetsdomstolen in information om vilka företag som skulle påverkas. Facket gjorde en kartläggning och skickade in informationen. Detta är alltså skälet till uppsägningen😵💫 www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fack...
Reading this makes me even more proud I did a joint degree with Birkbeck as a main college ❤️
Prompted by another thread, I was reading about the history of Birkbeck College. The horror of educating the working class beyond what was needed to do their jobs echoes down the ages
February 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Reading this makes me even more proud I did a joint degree with Birkbeck as a main college ❤️
An honour to be interviewed by two extremely senior and knowledgeable Bangladeshi engineers on my book misreading the Bengal delta youtu.be/LlBdvN4k5gA?...
Development Talks Edition 11: Author Talk with Dr. Camelia Dewan - "Misreading the Bengal Delta"
YouTube video by Sayeed Ahmed
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January 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
An honour to be interviewed by two extremely senior and knowledgeable Bangladeshi engineers on my book misreading the Bengal delta youtu.be/LlBdvN4k5gA?...